VISIBLE ALPHA INSIGHTS
Visible Alpha is dedicated to creating the deepest consensus in the market, with more and higher quality sources, and longer-term forecast horizons.
Integrate Visible Alpha Data Into Your Investment Process
- SYSTEMATIC QUANT – Explore our data across your investable universe to find signals that enhance your quantitative models and help generate alpha
- QUANTAMENTAL/DATA SCIENTIST – Conduct exploratory data analysis and quantitative research with our data to confirm your investment thesis and help you confidently present your investment ideas
- APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT – Power your dashboards, reports and analytical tools by integrating our data into your internal applications or third-party systems
Deepest Consensus
We extract the forecasts, assumptions and logic from full working sell-side models to give institutional investors consensus data with full granularity and transparency.
VA Actuals
Captures historical data not found in filings or disclosed by companies. This exclusive historical information is stitched together with forecast data to help you identify market winners.
Standardized Data
Optimize cross-sectional analysis with 140k+ Visible Alpha Financial and Operating metrics across 150+ industries, easily conduct relative analysis over multiple time periods.
Unlock the Power of Forecast Data
Visible Alpha Insights captures the forecasts, assumptions and logic from full working sell-side models and integrates them into comparable views across analysts, companies and peer groups. This deep consensus data provides a quick understanding of the sell-side view on a company or industry at an unprecedented level of granularity, timeliness and interactivity.
From Granular Company Data to Granular Industry Data
ANALYST DATA
Extracted directly from sell-side analyst models, presented as each analyst models each line item
COMPANY DATA
Analyst data made comparable for each company, including segment-level data and key company drivers. Available by analyst and in consensus.
INDUSTRY DATA
Company data made comparable within an industry, including all financial and operating metrics for easy relative analysis. Available by analyst and in consensus.
Tutorial Series
Get Access to Visible Alpha Insights API Tutorials
We provide the market’s view to enable you to extract valuable insights and gain an investment edge. To do that, we provide multiple ways for you to access and incorporate our data directly into your workflow. This page provides access to five tutorials to help both new and seasoned users get the most out of our Insights API products.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the data sourced?
Our data is sourced directly from sell-side analyst models. Over 140 brokers contribute their spreadsheet models to Visible Alpha Insights, enabling us to capture every detailed line item analysts forecast in their coverage universe. For a full list of brokers, click here >
How do you create consensus?
We process full working models from the sell side; apply machine learning to extract all of the assumptions buried deep within analyst models; create detailed consensus models across all of a company’s products, segments, geographies and business drivers; and continually update consensus with every new analyst model and revision received. This provides you with a normalized view of all the relevant metrics and key drivers in a clean, comparable consensus model.
How is Visible Alpha different from other consensus estimates providers?
Our unique relationships with over 150 brokers gives us access to their analysts’ full working models. While traditional consensus providers offer limited line items and forecast periods, Visible Alpha Insights has more consensus data on crucial line items, with higher source count and quality.
Does Visible Alpha add new companies to the platform?
We are continually adding new companies across the globe to the platform. Users can request coverage on any company from within the platform.
Does Visible Alpha ever onboard new brokers onto the platform?
We are always increasing coverage with new and current brokers. If a broker you work with is not contributing to our platform, we will work with you to onboard their content. If you are a broker who would like to start contributing content to Visible Alpha, please contact us.
Who uses Visible Alpha Insights?
Hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, investment banks, equity research departments, quantitative funds, independent research providers, private equity, wealth managers, family offices, academia and media outlets.
